Re: IIe, IIgs, Mac LC-II hardware compatibility questions.

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

Paul Grammens wrote...

> What kind of Apple 3.5 drive does this take, the 1.44?  I have one of
these
> cards, but I thought it only supported a special 5.25" drive, which I
don't
> have.
> -Paul

The "PC Transporter" takes a regular 800K Apple 3.5 drive (NOT the Unidisk
3.5).  The Apple 3.5 drive can read and write both GCR and MFM formats.  I
don't believe you can use the 1.44M Apple 3.5 drive.
The "PC Transporter" can also use special 5.25" drives made by Applied
Engineering called "Transdrives" but I am unfamiliar with them.
The Apple 3.5 drive works flawlessly on 720K MS-DOS disks that have been
formatted on another MS-DOS machine.  If you format the disks using the
Apple IIgs / PC Transporter some other MS-DOS machines have trouble reading
them (although I have found many where they work just fine).

Charlie